Master plan, urban codes meeting today

Wednesday

The city of Spartanburg's planning commission will meet this afternoon to discuss the new downtown master plan and urban codes.

The master plan, a 25-year plan for growth in the downtown area, was released to City Council last week. The proposed urban codes will replace zoning in the downtown area, if approved.

The planning commission and council could adopt one, or both, of the documents, which took months of planning to draft.

The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall training room at 145 W. Broad St. and is open to the public.

Sheriff's office seeks

tips on Friday robbery

The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is seeking information on an armed robbery Friday at One Stop Convenience Store, 2055 New Cut Road.

The robbery occurred at 10 p.m. Investigators have described the robber as a white man, between 30 and 40 years of age, heavy-set and between 5 feet, 8 inches and 6 feet tall. He is believed to have been in a white four-door car, perhaps a Dodge.

The car displayed a red and white paper tag.

Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call the sheriff's office at 503-4501 or CrimeStoppers at 58-CRIME.

Police: Bicyclist died

after hitting head

James Conard England, of 115 Victoria Road in Spartanburg, died Sunday after falling off his bicycle and hitting his head against the pavement, according to a police report.

England, 45, had been drinking and attempted to sleep it off at a house on Forest Street late Sunday, but the occupants of the house didn't want him there, witnesses told police. He tried to get on his bicycle to leave, and witnesses stated he was wobbling just before he fell onto the road.

A driver came upon England's body in the roadway shortly before 11 p.m. His legs were wrapped around the bicycle, the report states.

One witness told officers that England was in the road for up to 15 minutes before police arrived, and no one tried to check on him or help him. He had no pulse when the city's Public Safety Department arrived on scene.

The Spartanburg County Coroner's Office did not return phone calls asking for information on England's cause of death Tuesday.

Compiled from staff reports

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